More theology

I am veering from my reminiscing today because I had a little epiphany last night.

If you have read past blogs, you will know about my brand of theology.  I am sure that there are people who would say I am an atheist because I don't subscribe to the conventional idea of a God we have to come to though religion and faith.  I am not a-theist;without an idea of God or a faith.  It's just an evolving idea, informed by religious traditions and cemented in science.

Here is my epiphany,  This my seem as if it is just a re-hash of my older thought, but it was not.  Do you know how,when Eliza Doolittle finally understood what Professor Higgins was trying to teach her in My Fair Lady?  It was the proverbial light bulb going off in her head moment when she was finally able to say, The rain in Spain is falling on the Plain" without a Cockney accent.  I was finally able to FEEL what I have always believed in my head.

I have always said that God is everything and everywhere; responsible for all life and all creation of all that exists in the universe.  But last nigh I finally understood that at a cellular level.  The full meaning of the force that we call God simply being the surrounding everything like soup that is capable of permeating into you very bones and that IS your consciousness.

We mess things up when we give God a personality.  Whether it an old man with a beard (who likes an awful lot like Santa Claus, living on a cloud in heaven and sending out gifts to the faithful with angels instead of eves!), or Morgan Freeman passing on the title to Jim Carrey.  We do a grave injustice to the vastness og this thing we call God.  We ell ourselves short by denying that we cannot be separate from that vast creative force.

We are also being arrogant and misguided  in the thought that, somehow, if we just live correctly and say the right thing, that we will be any more worthy of God's love than anyone or anything else.  It is the epitome of arrogance to believe that some personality of God just decided to throw some people onto a planet to see if they could sink or swim.  I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we are the result of an accident in nature.

In no way do I think this makes humanity less worthy of love and respect.I think everyone should be in awe that the force that creates everything was able to create this remarkable world and this remarkable universe.  I just think that in a universe this vast, expansive and varied, we think that we are any more marvelous than anything else in said universe. I  think it is a very big mistake to limit ourselves to a narrow way of thinking about anything.

I also think we are ridiculous in our idea that "God" is responsible for suffering.  That, somehow, God would knowingly allow a child to be abused or people to starve or a hurricane to wipe out an entire city, He didn't reach down and say "I think I'll give that one Multiple Sclerosis because she was mean to her sister, or just because I like to see how people deal with stuff.   God doesn't do this.  Nature,which is way much bigger of a force than humanity, does this without any idea that this is a good or bad thing. It just is because it is.

Here was the other part of my epiphany.  I have always believed that "God is Love".  But the reverse of that statement is the real truth.   Love is God.  I think that, if we are truly understanding of that force that creates all, it would feel like love. Not because it decided to, but because that is the feeling that that energy gives us.  It like fire is hot and ice is cold.  That just its property.  The property and essence of that God force feels like the most profound and amazing love. People confuse that with a personality that has to choose to bestow love somehow. That energy has no choice in the matter.  It just is what it is.

Next time I will write about smaller.less complicated thing again!

















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